Cedric's Movie-Watching Breakdown

"Dumbledore! Dumbledore killed her, gave her the Killing Curse!" Ron muttered throughout every single moment Umbridge spoke in the movie.

Harry had almost forgotten his worries about Hagrid.

"Hagrid is fine, he went to complete Dumbledore's mission," Rupert said, only remembering Harry's question a moment later. "This is Umbridge, I actually quite like her, I mean the actress. Ms. Melda Staunton is excellent."

"What's wrong with Filch?" Neville asked. "Why is he so agitated?"

Rupert explained, "In the novel, it's because he was given a lot of power, and the abolished practice of corporal punishment of students reappeared at Hogwarts. And that's what he's always wanted. His office is full of torture instruments."

"Perhaps in the movie they were kindred spirits and fell in love at first sight? Because Umbridge also likes cats?"

"What's wrong with these guys?" The next scene, Ron from the movie, turned red-hot. "Everyone's looking at Harry like that. Especially Seamus and Dean! Seamus, what nonsense are you spouting!"

(Seamus and Dean lowered their heads in shame.)

(The Gryffindor students appearing on camera nervously twisted their necks, as if their ties were tied too tightly.)

(I feel ashamed for believing Fudge's propaganda.)

(Grindelwald: "Albus, what you don't occupy, your enemies will.")

"This Harry is amazing! He finally dared to fight back!" Ron, the novelist, smiled. "Before, he was like a little girl, burying everything inside when he was wronged."

(Watching Ron speak up for him in the movie, Harry kissed Roan in his arms, and after 'seeing' that he had yelled at Ron for comforting him, he kissed him even harder.)

In the movie, Draco says, "Weasley, that's normal. You haven't forgotten what the other students thought of you when you lost 50 points in your freshman year. That's how Gryffindor students are, they think they're righteous, but they have no brains and they're always being used."

The Gryffindor in the room— Ron from the movie, Ron from the novel, Neville, Harry —looked at Draco from the movie and narrowed their eyes.

You may be right, but that doesn't stop us from teaching you a lesson.

Draco realized this and quickly hid behind Rupert, saying, "Let's watch the movie."

Rupert belatedly explained, "Harry is actually acting this way because of Voldemort's influence, and he's resonating with the fragment of Voldemort's Soul Fragment that's attached to Nagini. Just like in the movies."

"Also, actually not that many people in the novel think Harry is a liar. Only Seamus in his dormitory is like that, Seamus is like that because of his mother's influence."

"That pink toad is an idiot," Movie Ron remarked, his attention shifting to the film. "There's no need to use a spell. Voldemort has been resurrected, and the Ministry of Magic wants students to only learn theory and abandon practical application?"

(Grindelwald: "She's trying to make the so-called populace easier to manage, so that they voluntarily relinquish their right to resist with spells and hand everything over to the Ministry of Magic.")

("How ignorant you are, Albus! You have let the sheep run wild, so much so that they dare to offend the lions and think they can lead them.")

"She's still laughing! Punishing a student—with Dark Magic tools!" Ron exclaimed in exasperation. "Dumbledore stands by and does nothing? Is Harry supposed to just put up with it and consider the bigger picture?"

(Grindelwald: "Anything that requires you to consider the bigger picture, you're definitely not part of that game.")

(Rowena Ravenclaw: "Dumbledore in the movie made this mistake, thinking that tolerance would bring understanding, but it only brought further offense.")

(Helga Hufflepuff: "What a disgrace to let dirty politics into schools?")

(Godric Gryffindor: "You should take the life of this offender, as headmaster.")

(Salazar Slytherin: "It is not a big problem to punish students appropriately, but the power to do so must be in one's own hands, not in the hands of a mere high-ranking official of the Ministry of Magic.")

(Hermione, who also loves cats like me, shut her mouth, wanting to say it was disgusting.)

"In the novel, it was Ron who discovered this," Rupert said. "The fifth book should have been divided into two parts, as it lost a lot of foreshadowing."

"For example, the fake Galleon, and Ron and Hermione becoming Prefect."

Ron from the movie, "This is me, I'll be the Prefect!"

(Mrs. Weasley: "What? Ron's become Prefect? This is really—")

"It should have been Harry's prefect, but Dumbledore self-righteous and thought it would put a lot of pressure on Harry, so he made Ron the Prefect."

(Mrs. Weasley shut up awkwardly.)

(Dumbledore touched his nose.)

"Also, Ron took his anger out on the younger students after he became Prefect."

(Weasley's face darkened. "Ron Weasley!")

Before Ron could even feel happy, he blushed and immediately began to righteously distance himself, saying, "Mom, that's not me."

Fortunately, the all-powerful transition Hedwig appeared.

(Harry's voice and the contents of the letter captivated Mrs. Weasley, who was overcome with maternal instincts.)

(Sirius said to Lupin in a boastful tone, "Harry wrote to me again. He always thinks of me when he's in trouble.")

(As Luna casually recounted how her shoes had been hidden, Professor Flitwick exclaimed, "How dare Ravenclaw under my nose, a student's shoes were stolen, and the Prefect turned a blind eye!")

(He desperately wanted to find the culprit and the Prefect who had mishandled the situation.)

(But he didn't know who the original Prefect was in 1995; the current Prefect is Cho Chang, and Penelope had already graduated.)

(Eccentric Ulysses: "Ravenclaw House has become so corrupt since my time. Being unconventional has never been a mistake in Ravenclaw.")

(Moaning Myrtle: "Ravenclaw isn't any more sacred than the other houses these days, Professor Flitwick. You've probably forgotten that I was once Ravenclaw student too. I also suffered bullying like that, no, much worse.")

(Olive Honbay: "You have your reasons too. I called you a four-eyed dog, and you've been haunting me ever since you died. You wouldn't leave me alone at my brother's wedding until I went to the Ministry of Magic!")

(Moaning Myrtle: "You just scolded me? You've been mocking me all this time!")

(.)

There's nothing new under the sun.

(Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick suddenly realized that they had been too indifferent to their students' private lives, focusing only on their studies and neglecting their Mind Stone. As deans, they were inadequate.)

(Professor Sprout didn't have this problem; Hufflepuff was united and focused on external threats.)

(Snape: The students in our house are the bullies.)

Everything in the live stream is now more captivating than the movie itself. Ron, the movie's director, exclaimed, "I never imagined Moaning Myrtle had such a history."

In the novel, Ron gets to know Luna for the first time, "And it seems she really is a good friend."

But what happened next made it impossible for anyone in the room to smile anymore.

"She and Fudge seem to treat the school as their personal fiefdom," Harry frowned.

"Dumbledore actually turned a blind eye to this and allowed himself to be offended step by step?" Neville was somewhat disappointed.

"Where did his fiery temper go?" Ron quipped in the novel.

"If Dumbledore really had such a good target, my dad would be very happy," Draco sighed in the movie.

(Grindelwald: "The Hogwarts professors, including Dumbledore, have forgotten one thing: truth lies only within the range of the wand, and dignity only at the tip of the wand.")

("Albus senile. Doesn't he realize that this will only harm the students? He doesn't teach them how to defend against disaster before it strikes. Does he think he can keep Voldemort's harm out of the school?")

In the novel, Draco said nothing, but his brows furrowed even more.

Until

Hermione in the movie makes a declaration.

"Well said! If no one's willing to teach, then learn by yourself!" Ron from the movie clapped. "Wasn't that my line?"

Rupert shook his head. "That's how it is in the novel too."

"[The Night Watch] has appeared! How amazing, it was originally Hermione's idea in the original destiny." Ron exclaimed in the movie, "[The Night Watch] is Harry in the name of Basil."

Rupert said, "Everyone in the novel is here for Harry."

(Ginny nodded in satisfaction, "Great, so many people support Harry.")

(Dumbledore: "Aberforth, you haven't given up on raising goats.")

(Aberforth: "I gave up long ago, after Ariana returned.")

"Also, in the novel, Seamus read the Quibbler's report, regained his faith in Harry, apologized to Harry, and joined the DA. It's a pity this part wasn't filmed; The Quibbler's was quite interesting."

(Dumbledore looks puzzled. "DA, Dumbledore's Army?")

(Luna, who was rolling around in the woods with Basil, was distracted by something—"My dad's newspaper.")

"However, Fred and George are not actually in DA."

"Logically, they should be preparing to drop out of school and open a shop now."

("Drop out of school?" Mrs. Weasley roared. "You two dared to drop out of school! For some kind of joke!")

Rupert noticed Mrs. Weasley. Mrs. Weasley's movements and used the same words he used to describe the world.

("Working with the Ministry of Magic?" Mrs. Weasley calmed down. "Their humor—cough, I mean, their talent for it?")

Rupert continued his explanation, "In the novel, it was Susan Bones, not Luna, who came to Harry's Patronus Charm. Because in the novel, it was Madam Bones. Amelia Bornes who presided over Harry's trial. She heard it from her aunt, Madam Bones."

"Then there's what Terry Boot said about Harry killing the Basilisk with the sword in Dumbledore's office. Not Neville, Neville's Harry's roommate. Neville said that sounded like self-promotion. And Boot got this information from the portrait, which usually doesn't lie."

"Neville was talking about the Philosopher's Stone, saying that Harry protected it from Voldemort."

"Then Cho Chang recounts Harry's performance in the Triwizard Tournament in great detail, foreshadowing Cho Chang's feelings for Harry."

(Cedric felt a pang in his heart, then he was relieved that Cho Chang in the movie didn't react that way.)

"So I didn't say that Harry used a Patronus Charm to drive away hundreds of Dementor?" Movie Ron asked in surprise.

(But then, Hermione's words to Harry, 'Cho's eyes never left you,' broke Cedric's nerves.)

"Ginny's face froze," Ron from the movie debunked. "She must have heard it too, and she's jealous."

(Ginny: "Yes, I'm jealous.")

Ron in the movie shut his mouth in annoyance.

Harry closed his eyes, somewhat unable to bear to look. "Why did 'I' like to plot so loudly that Filch and Umbridge heard it directly?"

Rupert laughed. "It's a movie feature, you have to try it."

"By the way, in the novel, it's Dobby who discovers the Room of Requirement of Room of Requirement, and in the movie, it's Neville, which is also very fitting. After all, Neville is also the Child of Prophecy, and in this movie, he begins to rise, giving people an epic feeling that Hogwarts also wants to fight back against them."

"The list," Draco suddenly realized. "That list is a flaw. Why bother recording the list at all?"

"Because before Umbridge hears Harry loudly plotting, the student organization hasn't broken any rules and won't be expelled, Malfoy," Ron from the movie said.

Rupert said, "Because there is a curse on the parchment, if it is revealed, your face will be covered with a dense mass of purple pustules."

"Of course, as we've seen, the one with the boils became Filch, and the Weasley twins' prank became a joke."

Ron didn't pay attention to the movie; he was just surprised. "That's great. Harry is really suited to be a professor. He taught so many people spells, haha. Filch thought they could catch Luna. I'm liking her more and more, Lavender. Not that kind of liking, I just like you."

"I've learned the Expelliarmus." Neville looked at his hands, somewhat incredulous.

This isn't spell card magic; it's a primitive spell that requires a wand.

(Cedric closed his eyes beforehand; he already knew what was going to happen.)

(Everyone else left, leaving only Harry and Cho Chang.)

(But closing your eyes won't work.)

(He appears in front of his photo, in conversations, and suddenly becomes a mistletoe [a girl standing under a mistletoe can be kissed])

(Was it to make him feel involved?)

(Quack! No!)

(Harry Potter, get your mouth off your head!)

(Cho Chang, don't respond to him!)

The room was filled with a joyful atmosphere, especially as the movie began to discuss Harry's kissing skills and Cho Chang's feelings.

Ron grinned and said, "Harry's kissing skills are indeed good, but his body language is too stiff. He should comfort her."

Rupert suppressed a laugh. "In Cho Chang's troubles in the novel, there's no mother being threatened with dismissal by Umbridge. This is her friend Marietta's."

In the novel, Draco keenly sensed something was amiss. "Could it be that Cho Chang will eventually betray us because of this?"

(Cedric instantly snapped out of his grief, "Cho Chang isn't that kind of person.")

Rupert nodded. "Yes, in the movie, but in the novel it's Marietta, who is also a member of the Order of the Phoenix."

"My dad!" Ron suddenly exclaimed, "Harry was dreaming. My dad was attacked by that snake called Nagini? Is he alright?"

(The Weasley family instantly tensed up.)

(But as the movie progresses, they learn that Arthur Weasley's life was saved thanks to Harry's warning.)